Medal Of Honor projections cut due to ‘gamer disinterest’

A major games industry analyst has reduced his sales estimates for EA’s first person shooter sequel Medal Of Honor: Warfighter due to an apparent lack of interest online.

Never mind social gaming, is the military shooter bubble about to burst?

Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz cited ‘gamer disinterest’ in Medal Of Honor: Warfighter since its appearance at E3, as well as a poor performance in Amazon’s top-selling rankings for pre-orders, for decreasing his forecasts for the game’s sales.Creutz is now predicting only 1.4 million U.S. sales on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 between October and December this year, down from earlier predictions of 2.3 million.Although those are still big numbers they’re low for what is EA’s major new first person shooter this year, and well behind 2011’s Battlefield 3 and all of the Call Of Duty games.‘We think the most likely culprit for apparent gamer disinterest is the poor quality of the last Medal of Honor title in 2010,’ said Creutz in one of his regular investor notes.We certainly weren’t too impressed with it at the time, and Warfighter has looked even more derivative and unnecessary ever since it was first unveiled – including when we interviewed the makers before E3.

So far the most interesting thing about Warfighter has been the promise of access to the Battlefield 4 beta by pre-ordering it, although given this report you have to wonder whether that was primarily to promote Battlefield 4 or desperately drum up some interest in Medal Of Honor.